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Growing pot impacts the electrical grid
« on: September 11, 2014, 12:13:41 PM »
http://mynorthwest.com/11/2605144/Washingtons-indoor-pot-grows-could-be-big-power-suck?google_editors_picks=true

I wonder if there is a more energy-efficient means of doing the indoor grows.

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Re: Growing pot impacts the electrical grid
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2014, 12:36:25 PM »
LED based grow lights may be an option, based on better lumen/watt output as well as generation of waste heat.  While its not a Cannabis sp. set up, I replaced the two bulb PCF fixture over my planted aquarium with a single LED based fixture about a year ago and have had great vegetative growth since the swap out (the PDF bulbs were less than 3 months old as swap so little age based lumen fall off out of the PCF tubes).

LEDs can also selected with greater accuracy for the wavelengths of light used by chlorophyll than florescent, metal halide or Na vapor fixtures.  When done so the grow environment looks weird and dark to our eyes since there is very little green light, but the plants don't care since they are getting the light THEY want. 
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Re: Growing pot impacts the electrical grid
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2014, 01:14:22 PM »
Skylights and solar panels.
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Re: Growing pot impacts the electrical grid
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2014, 01:17:13 PM »
I have a question:  Are there any other crops that they do indoor grows like this of?  Hothouse flowers for the shops, perhaps.

If it's determined to be be legal long enough and they can get funding, shouldn't they be able to start growing the stuff in proper greenhouses and not need to grow the plants using purely artificial light?

That should allow you to cut the energy bill in half, at least.
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Re: Growing pot impacts the electrical grid
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2014, 01:46:31 PM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on September 11, 2014, 01:14:22 PM
Skylights and solar panels.

In the Pacfic NorthWET?!?!?!?!   Hahahahhaha.  For that one day a year when the sun comes out for 15 minutes?
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Re: Growing pot impacts the electrical grid
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2014, 03:17:50 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on September 11, 2014, 01:46:31 PM
In the Pacfic NorthWET?!?!?!?!   Hahahahhaha.  For that one day a year when the sun comes out for 15 minutes?

Actually, it was absolutely beautiful one week I was out there in September  =)

The blue-est skies that I've ever seen  ;)
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Re: Growing pot impacts the electrical grid
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2014, 03:54:26 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on September 11, 2014, 03:17:50 PM
Actually, it was absolutely beautiful one week I was out there in September  =)

I don't think it rained a single time I was ever up there for work, and I used to go a lot. For a while I think higher ups in Seattle were arranging travel orders there for me because they wanted the rain to stop.  :laugh:
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Re: Growing pot impacts the electrical grid
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2014, 04:04:42 PM »
Quote from: Ben on September 11, 2014, 03:54:26 PM
I don't think it rained a single time I was ever up there for work, and I used to go a lot. For a while I think higher ups in Seattle were arranging travel orders there for me because they wanted the rain to stop.  :laugh:

I was out there in November and January and it was cold, cloudy, and raining all the time  =(
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Re: Growing pot impacts the electrical grid
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2014, 04:22:06 PM »
I figure that in about 4 weeks, I will be parking the motorcycle and bicycles until March or so.  My enthusiasm for riding either in 50 degrees and rain has gone down as I have grown older.
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Re: Growing pot impacts the electrical grid
« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2014, 05:13:13 AM »
I've read in The Marijuana Grower's Bible that indoor grows allow for individual monitoring of the plants and adjusting of the light and nutrient levels, thus allowing for better-quality weed. I don't know if it is true.
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Re: Growing pot impacts the electrical grid
« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2014, 07:26:22 AM »
Quote from: Tallpine on September 11, 2014, 03:17:50 PM
Actually, it was absolutely beautiful one week I was out there in September  =)

The blue-est skies that I've ever seen  ;)

In Seattle?

got to spend 6 weeks in the Seattle/Puget Sound area in the late spring of '84, did not see the sun while I was there.
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Re: Growing pot impacts the electrical grid
« Reply #11 on: September 12, 2014, 11:02:29 AM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on September 12, 2014, 07:26:22 AM
In Seattle?

got to spend 6 weeks in the Seattle/Puget Sound area in the late spring of '84, did not see the sun while I was there.

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Re: Growing pot impacts the electrical grid
« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2014, 01:45:30 PM »
Spent my formative years in Issaquah, WA, east of Seattle about 15 miles.  Saw lots of sun during the summer.  The other nine months of the year were...damp.
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Re: Growing pot impacts the electrical grid
« Reply #13 on: September 12, 2014, 10:55:31 PM »
Quote from: MillCreek on September 11, 2014, 12:13:41 PM
http://mynorthwest.com/11/2605144/Washingtons-indoor-pot-grows-could-be-big-power-suck?google_editors_picks=true

I wonder if there is a more energy-efficient means of doing the indoor grows.

Yup.  Move them to greenhouses.  Use LED lights during the winter months.
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